Shawshank+Redemption

Class Notes 9/18 (recorded by Julia Vu):

I. Likes A. Andy escapes and doesn’t get caught 1. Andy gets the best of the warden B. Shows prison system and prison life C. Morgan Freeman as narrator

II. Andy- main character A. mysterious, don’t know much about him 1. Red is the only one who gives us info about Andy a. intelligent person b. likes to help people i. had library built ii. helped Tommy 2. Thoughts on Andy being guilty or innocent in beginning of movie a. some thought he was guilty and some thought he was innocent B. Mozart Scene 1. Andy outwitted the guards and system a. got what he wanted, had it his way for a while 2. Everyone froze and listened to peaceful music a. shot of yard and all of the workers i. bird’s eye view b. Red- everyone felt free for a little while i. music helped forget they were in prison ii. don’t need to understand song, to have music still affect you III. Prison- Deterrent A. Pros 1. Keep people safe 2. Rehabilitation 3. Punish B. Cons 1. Advantages contradict themselves a. punishing person, can’t rehabilitate person 2. Corruption in system a. Tommy’s murder b. Warden and guards’ abuse of prisoners

Class Notes 9/20 (recorded by Josh Schwindenhammer):


 * Andy outsmarted the system when he played the Mozart Music
 * o Andy seems to be very happy during this scene when he’s listening to the music
 * o Another scene where he seems very happy is when he’s on the roof with the other inmates and they’re drinking the beers that he was given at his request by doing what Hadley wanted him to do.
 * § He felt at this time as a free man
 * Morgan Freeman is most likely the narrator of this movie basically because of his amazing voice
 * o It also makes the movie more interesting because then you couldn’t of been able to predict the events that happened in the film
 * o It also makes the events more surprising when they happen because if Andy was the narrator, he might have foreshadowed events to happen